The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-21

| IL prairie fire near Taylor, Tex, on the
| 18th Dir. McFadden had three thousand
acres of pasture and fencing destroyed,
| and five hundred sheep burned 10 death.
| S. SAMUELs, aged thirty Eight years, of
| Chicago, died on the 14th from HYDRO
| phobia. He was bitten by small dog
| with which he was playing three months
ago.
THE execution of T. j. Cluverius took
place On the 14th at Richmond, Va, for
| the murder of his cousin, Fannie Z. Madi-
| son. He died without making confess
| sion.
| AT the door of residence on the 18th
| in New Boston, ILL.,, were found the corpses
of James E. Doughty and Miss Martha Benz
edict. Jealousy was no doubt the cause of
the tragedy.
HARVEY MCCLELLAN, aged twelve years,
while coasting on the 18th at Waynesburg,
| o., dashed into a wire fence, the bar bs cut
| ting his throat, causing instant death.
On the morning of the 10th Prof Edward
Olney, LII. D., the eminent mathematician,
was found dead in his bed at Ann Arbor,
Mich, death having resulted from heart
disease. He had been for thirty years pro-
fessor of mathematics in the University of
Michigan.
ABNER LETCHER, aged fifteen years, of
Point Pleasant, W. Va, has carried out his
| threat to avenge the murder of his father
| by Jason Borden. The corpse of the latter
was found on the 18th in the woods where
the boy was hunting.
| In the Legislature of Texas a bill was in
troduced on the 18th requiring railroads to
| give thirty days notice of the discharge of
employees or reduction of their wages, and
also requiring labOrers to give months
! notice of strike.
| AT Marshall, Col, snow-slide on the
| 18th killed two men and swept away many
| buildings.
| THE distillery of Crawford Fairbanks at
| Terre Haute, ind, valued at 800, 900, was
| destroyed by fire on the 18th.
| In portions of Ohio and Michigan hogs
were dying by the hundreds on the 18th of
cholera
| FIFTY tons of powder exploded on the
10Th on the schooner Parallel, at San
Francisco, wrecking the vessel, the Cliff
and other buildings.
| The inauguration of Governor Hughes,
of Kansas, took place On the 18TH
NEAR Chippewa Falls, Wis, hill was,
on the 18th, found to contain gold lumber
and rich hematite ORE the value of the
whole being placed at a fabulous sum.
| On the 18th Senator Mcdonald (Rep)
was unseated by the Democratic majority
of the Indiana Senate.
| A BLIZZARD blockaded railroads in the
| Northwest on the 18th.
| Four tramps persisted in a burning car
at Paducah, KY, on the 18th.
JUDGE AYERS rendered decision in the
circuit court at Indianapolis on the 18th
| against Lieutenant-Governor Robertson,
and granted an injunction restraining him
from presiding at the joint convention of
the Legislature to nominate a United States
| Senator. The case would be taken to the
| Supreme Court.
A REVOLVER exploded in the hands of
| William Baker On the 18th at Galena, O..
| the bullet killing his brother Arthur, aged
| sixteen years.
THREE men of the schooner Lloyd Milton
were drowned while attempting to go
ashore on the ice at Princess Anne, Nd i,
| on the 18th.
TIE second winter carnival at st. Paul,
Mimi, was inaugurated on the 18th by
opening the ice palace to visitors